Scientia Marina

Scientia Marina is a scientific journal published by the CSIC and edited by the Institut de Ciències del Mar that publishes original papers, reviews and comments concerning research in the following fields:

- Marine Biology and Ecology
- Fisheries and Fisheries Ecology
- Systematics, Faunistics and Marine Biogeography
- Physical Oceanography
- Chemical Oceanography
- Marine Geology.

Emphasis is placed on articles of an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary nature (including those linking marine sciences with social and life sciences), as well as those dealing with the conservation of marine ecosystems and the sustainable and fair use of marine resources.

The journal was founded in 1955 under the title of Investigación Pesquera and adopted its current name in 1989. It began to be available online in 2007, in PDF format, and the print edition was continued until 2014, when it became an electronic journal publishing in PDF, HTML and XML-JATS. Contents of previous issues are also available in PDF files.

Scientia Marina is indexed in the Web of Science: Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI), Current Contents - Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences, Zoological Record and BIOSIS Previews, and in SCOPUS, CWTS Leiden Ranking Journal indicators core publications, REDIB, DOAJ and other national and international databases. It is indexed in Latindex Catalogue 2.0 and has obtained the FECYT Seal of Quality.